My passion for teaching developed in my high school years when I chose peer tutoring to fill my community service requirement for the national honors society. I would stay after school each day for a couple hours helping some of my classmates with homework and testing strategies. After these students would succeed in the courses that I was helping them in, I felt a feeling that I could never have imagined. I took great pride in knowing that I helped someone who had such a negative view on learning succeed with someone. Ever since I was little when someone would ask, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" I would always respond a "teacher". I never knew why that was my response until I received that feeling of accomplishment after my hours of peer tutoring. I had also developed my love for science in my high school years. My science teacher that I had for 9th, 11th, and 12th grade was phenomenal. He was the one teacher who knew everything that was going on whether it was school related or not. He went out of his way to engage with students. He was in charge of almost every extracurricular event that took place at my school. As I would sit in his classroom, I saw myself teaching with many of his strategies. He has a very similar sarcastic attitude that keeps people listening that I find myself to have as well. He was such an excellent teacher that it caused me to fall in love with the subject as well. It was definitely anatomy and physiology that completely stole my interest. I loved learning about the human body and how it functions. There is something about science and all of the questions and changing ideas that just captures my attentions. I am a very hands on learner and find myself completely engaged and more wiling to learn when completing labs and experiments. I would love to instill my love for science and teaching into my students of the future.
3/5. You have some good ideas here Melissa. You now need to strengthen your professional writing by adding an introduction, and conclusion, and dividing up your ideas into their own paragraphs. - fogleman Sep 25, 2011
3/5. You have some good ideas here Melissa. You now need to strengthen your professional writing by adding an introduction, and conclusion, and dividing up your ideas into their own paragraphs. -